Shirley Temple and the performance of girlhood /Kristen Hatch.
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: sex and Shirley Temple -- America's sweethearts: Mary Pickford, Shirley Temple, and the decline of sentiment -- A terrible amour: child loving in the twentieth century -- Immaculate amalgamation: Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple -- Baby burlesks and kiddie kabarets: children's erotic impersonations -- Priceless: economic innocence and the child star -- Epilogue.
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Girls in motion pictures. Child actors--United States.